Pasi Lautala, PE

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Dr. Lautala was appointed in August, 2012 as an Assistant Professor in the Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is also the Director of Rail Transportation
Program (RTP), position that he has held since October, 2007. Pasi has his BS from
Tampere University of Technology in Finland and his MSc. And Ph.D. degrees from Michigan
Tech University. Dr. Lautala is leading and coordinating the overall development of
the Program and most rail transportation related education and research at Tech. His
previous experience includes work with Finnish Railways prior to his arrival in the
US, as well as five years of railroad and highway-engineering consulting experience
in Chicago before his return to Michigan Tech. Dr. Lautala is also the Michigan Tech
Principal Investigator for the National University Rail Transportation Center (NURail),
funded by the US Department of Transportation and for several other rail- related
research and education projects. Dr. Lautala is a member of Michigan Commission for
Supply Chain and Transportation Logistics Collaboration, the Vice Chair of ASCE Rail
Transportation Committee and Vice Chair of the TRB AR040, Rail Freight Transportation
Committee. He is also actively involved in the AREMA Education and Training Committee.
Dr. Lautala is also the Associate Director of Education for NURail Center, a rail-focused, Tier-1 University Transportation Center (UTC) under the US Department
of Transportation (DOT) Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) program.